• Starting BASIC

    From John@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 24 14:02:38 2025
    Does anyone have a copy of Ray Favre's 'Starting Basic'?

    If you have a copy, how about donating it to a worthy
    cause? With the advances in BASIC since Ray wrote it, the
    book must be woefully out of date by now and is of
    restricted use to anyone wanting to learn how to program in
    BASIC.

    At the request of the copyright holder (Gavin Smith, the
    editor of Archive magazine) I'm trying to recreate the
    original as a sort of 'archeological' exercise. All Ray's
    files and printing masters were lost after his death and
    the purpose of this exercise is to have a complete (as far
    as possible) record of his work.

    As a package, there was a disc of program listings to go
    with the book. I would very much appreciate a copy of these
    if anyone has them.

    If anyone *does* have a copy (or even knows someone who has
    one) and is due to attend the show this coming Saturday, a
    saving on postage could be made because I'll be there as
    well. I'll either pay for it or make a donation to the
    Charity Stall (or both).

    Please get in touch if you can help. It doesn't matter if
    there are a few scribbled notes on it as I can overcome
    these either before or during the OCR process.

    Thanks in advance,

    John

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    John
    newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk
    j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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